Canadian dies in Egypt of gunshot wounds
The Canadian Press
The skyline of Cairo, Egypt, off the Nile on July 29, 2004. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Barbara Adhiya
A Montreal man has died of gunshot wounds after getting caught up in a violent family feud in southern Egypt three days ago.
The Egyptian news service Bikya Masr says Jean-Francois Pelland lived in Cairo where he was a teacher and football coach.
It says Pelland, 24, was touring southern Egypt with a friend when members of a feuding family opened fire on his car Wednesday.
An Egyptian security official says the armed men opened fire directly at the car after his driver refused to stop at an illegal checkpoint in the town of al-Samata. He died in hospital Saturday.
Pelland's students have expressed sadness online over the news of his death.
Family feuds and violent revenge attacks are common in southern Egypt, where many families take the law into their own hands and refuse police intervention.
With files from The Associated Press
The Egyptian news service Bikya Masr says Jean-Francois Pelland lived in Cairo where he was a teacher and football coach.
It says Pelland, 24, was touring southern Egypt with a friend when members of a feuding family opened fire on his car Wednesday.
An Egyptian security official says the armed men opened fire directly at the car after his driver refused to stop at an illegal checkpoint in the town of al-Samata. He died in hospital Saturday.
Pelland's students have expressed sadness online over the news of his death.
Family feuds and violent revenge attacks are common in southern Egypt, where many families take the law into their own hands and refuse police intervention.
With files from The Associated Press
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